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Re: More Illustrated Laws at The Brick Testament
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:22:58 GMT
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Hi, Soren.
In lugnet.build.ancient, Soren Roberts wrote:
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Your talent makes me sick.
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One should always keep a barf bag on hand when perusing my LEGO creations.
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The barbed wire, the motel beds, the little pile of feces, they
just look right (or in the case of the last, very, very wrong).
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I had an alternate photo where I used brown 1x2 plates. It looked more LEGO,
but not quite as disturbing. Of course, I chose the more disturbing path.
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This time, though, I have some nitpicks:
(1) The assault rifles. Typically, the clips are closer to the pistol grip,
and although I like your method, the clips should curve outwards. Not a big
deal, just a little weird.
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Yeah, sometimes I wish I was a gun nut so I could get this stuff right. OK, not
really. At first I played around with the idea of giving the soldiers composite
rifles like those of
Kotaro
Ono and Keith
Goldman. But as much as I love the look of these weapons, I thought they
looked too large in the hands of a mini-fig. So I went with the standard rifle
with the gray-hand clip that I first saw in Gary Thomas’s 2001 ISCC entry, the
Temple of Catur
Muka. But yes, as you noticed, I have the clip facing the wrong way and too
far from the grip. My apologies to the gun nuts. Don’t shoot.
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(2) The tanks. I’m assuming they’re M1s, so the treads should extend further
downwards. And the forward slope of the hull is a little different from your
model, as shown here
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Yeah, again, I don’t know from tanks, so I had to look up some photos of modern
tanks for inspiration. I kept hearing about “Bradley Fighting Machines” in the
news, so I was almost going to do one of those, but then I remembered there was
some other tank that sounded like “Abram”, and I couldn’t resist the Bible
reference, so you are correct that my tank is modeled on the M1 Abrams.
Your criticism here is again quite valid. My main problem was that it turns out
I own no LEGO treads whatsoever. So I either had to order them on Bricklink and
wait until they arrived, or see what I could do without them. Impatience got
the better of me. The forward slope comment is also true. My apologies to the
tank nuts. Don’t shoot!
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Your turret design is great, though. Cool use of the basketball stand part.
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Thanks. NBA parts are good for something.
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That’s all, really, and by no means do you have to listen to my grumblings.
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Hey, I like criticism. And I expected to get some nitpicks on the military
stuff. Now let’s see if anyone picks nits with my LEGO bar. I don’t ever go to
bars, so again I had to use some reference photos. I’m sure I got something
wrong though. @8^)
Thanks for the comments!
-Rev. Smith
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